''Crystal Mass'' is the fourth album by

The Tear Garden The Tear Garden is a psychedelic/experimental/electronic band, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1985 after Key served as a sound engineer on tour in Canada for Ka-Spel. An EP, ''The Tear Gard ...

, released four years after '' To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide''. It has the same line-up as the previous release. This was their last album released on

Nettwerk Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk Management, and Nettwerk One Publishing. Established in 1984, the Vancouver-based company was created by Nettwerk principals Terry McBride and Mark Jowett as a record ...

Track listing

All tracks by

# "Lament" – 6:28 # "The Double Spades Effect" – 5:13 # "Desert Island Disc" – 5:23 # "Hopeful" – 3:28 # "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster" – 6:54 # "Castaway" – 5:17 # "Feathered Friends" – 4:56 # "To Mourn the Death of Colour" – 12:39 # "Six of One" – 7:26

Personnel

*Martijn de Kleer – acoustic guitar, violin, electric guitar *Rachel K. – artwork *

Edward Ka-Spel Edward Sharp, better known by his stage name Edward Ka-Spel, is an English singer-songwriter and musician, born in London on 23 January 1954, to a family with East Anglia connections. He is best known for his work with the band The Legendary Pi ...

– keyboards, vocals, producer, electronics *

cEvin Key Kevin William Crompton (born February 13, 1961), known professionally as cEvin Key, is a Canadian musician, songwriter, producer, and composer. He is best known as a member of the industrial music group Skinny Puppy, which he co-founded in 1982 wi ...

– acoustic guitar, percussion, drums, keyboards, producer, electronics, tapes *Remco Polman – image manipulation *Niels Van Hoorn – flute *Bill Van Rooy – hand percussion *Frankie Verschuuren – producer, engineer ''Crystal Mass'' has a tracking error: tracks 4 and 5 ("Hopeful" and "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster") are indexed as a single 10:23 track. In addition, the track listing on the album mistakenly titles track 6 as "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster" when in fact it is "Castaway". "To Mourn the Death of Colour" is used as a lyric in

The Legendary Pink Dots The Legendary Pink Dots (LPD) are an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in August 1980. In 1984, the band moved to Amsterdam, playing with rotating musicians and having, as core members, singer/songwriter/keyboardist Edward Ka- ...

song "Cheraderama".

References

{{Authority control 2000 albums The Tear Garden albums Nettwerk Records albums